From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-07-28T23:07:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Creating hashes with duplicate keys

On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Sy Ali wrote:

> I want to simplify this hash creation:
> g = { 1 => "test", 2 => "test", }
>
> I have a particularly complicated hash that I'm generating.  It can
> have very large values.
>
> Right now, I duplicate values with something like this:
>
> c = { 1 => "one", }
> d = { 2 => c[1], }
> c.merge!(d)
>
> however, I don't like the way my code looks.. I want to be able to
> specify the duplication within the hash generation.
>
> Is this possible?

use rbtree (from the raa)

   harp:~ > cat a.rb
   require 'rbtree'

   rb = RBTree.new

   rb[1] = 'test'
   rb[2] = 'test'

   rb.each{|k,v| p [k,v]}


   harp:~ > ruby a.rb
   [1, "test"]
   [2, "test"]

regards.

-a
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